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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125872
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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595161
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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581508
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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950778
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Digital interventions to increase financial knowledge : evidence from a pilot RCT
Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2024
knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial …, the video treatment enhanced financial knowledge scores by more than 50 percent of a standard deviation. Conversely, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493790
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Limited attention as the scarce resource in an information-rich economy
Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2005
This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium analysis at the industry and the macroeconomic level. The paper endogenously determines whether an economy is information-rich and whether scarcity of attention complements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002694130
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College majors and the knowledge content of jobs
Freeman, James A. (contributor);  … - 2007
knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with … ratings on 27 knowledge content areas from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), thus providing measures of the … economy-wide knowledge content of jobs. Fields of study and the corresponding BA degree data from the Digest of Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608453
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580916
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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596164
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The determinants of the global digital divide : a cross-country analysis of computer and internet penetration
Chinn, Menzie David (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002352517